My wife and I have been going to Bob Taylor's since the 70's and it has always been great. In fact we always let our out of town visitors know that they really need to eat there before they leave Las Vegas for a true old Vegas experience.
I don't know how many times the restaurant has changed hands but this past weekend was the worst experience ever. Our rib appetizer was lukewarm at best and the BBQ sauce was cold. The salad was inedible. The lettuce looked like it was the pre-packaged cheap stuff and had the smell and taste of MSG preservatives. The lettuce was soggy and the blue cheese dressing was watery and very runny.
The baked potato that came with our steaks tasted overcooked and burnt. It had that black skin around the inside that you get from reheating old baked potatoes. We told our waitress about it and she brought us out 2 more baked potatoes that were just as bad. When we let her know again she said that fresh potatoes would not be ready for another 15 minutes.
Although the steaks we had were very good the side dishes were so very bad that it brought down the whole meal experience. It was truly very disappointing. We will no longer refer people to Bob Taylors and after reading some of the other reviews on Yelp it seems a lot of people have had the same experience so this was not a one bad night fluke kind of thing. They seem not to care what the reviews say as it's obvious they have not made any attempt to improve the things that everyone is complaining about. There are better places for me to spend my hard earned money than Bob Taylors.